Teachers: Dan Grasser Textbook: The Americans, McDougal Littel (2003)
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Unit
Objective:
"The learner will . . ."
Standard(s)
No. of Days
Vocabulary Terms
Resources
Student Learning Activities
Assessment
Language Arts Standard(s)
discovery, exploration and establishment
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-Identify explorers and their discoveries
-Identify areas of settlement
-Explain the causes of the Declaration of Independence
-Understand the importance of the early presidents especially Washington, Jefferson and Jackson
-Explain the consequences of the Industrial Revolution
-Explain the abolitionist movement
-Understand cause and effect of the war with Mexico
- Examine tensions over the slavery issue
- examine the 1860 presidential election
-Explain the causes of the Civil War
-Locaate major battle sites
-Explain why the North won the Civil War
-analyze national leadership during Reconstuction
-Describe social and economic changes in the South
-Understand establishmenrt of Jim Crow laws
-Examine the growth of the cattle industry
-Examine the mining booms in the West
-Explain conflicts with native tribes
-text
-video: America, The story of US
- video: The Presidents
-bullet points of emphasis
Yahoo maps
-notetaking
-worksheets
- map construction
-study guides
-reviews - chapter tests -reading analysis
indusrialization and urbanization
3
-explain the growth of the railroads
-explian the need and availability of natural resources
-examine the growth of cities
-examine the development of big business
-trace the origins of organized labor
-explain the importance of new inventions and building techniques
-understand US expansion overseas
-understand cause and effects of the Spanish/American War
-explain Roosevelt's Square Deal and Wilson's New Freedom
-describe the long term cause and effects of the Progressive Movement
-examine Us imperialism
-examine cause/effect of WW1
-understand ramifications of the peace treaty
-text
-Video: America, the -Story of US
Video: The
-Presidents
-Youtube clips
-America's Time
-notetaking
- worksheets
-mapping
-study guides
-reviews -chapter tests -reading analysis
1920s and the Jazz Age
5
-Examine the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
-identify the scandals of the Harding administration
-examine the changes in American culture during the "Jazz Age"
-explain the reasons for prosperity during the 1920s
-list the causes of the Great Depression
-describe the hard times for various segments of American society
-expain the placement of blame for the depression
-examine the implementation of Roosevelt's New Deal
-list and describe New Deal programs
-explain how th New Deal was paid for
-describe the results of the New Deal
-examine the building of the Axis powers and the Good Neighbor Policy
-describe the start of WW2 in Europe
-examine WW2 before US entry and our increasing involvement
-discuss US advantages and planning for the war effort upon our entry into WW2
-examine WW2 on the southern flank
-examine WW2 on the Eastern Front
-examine Operation Overlord, the US invasion of Europe and subsequent fall of Germany
-examine WW2 in Asia and the Pacific
-describe post war Allied agreements
-examine the causes and effects of the Korean War
-examine anti-communism and McCarthyism in the US
-discuss the political environment and the Cold War after WW2
-explain changing American culture in the 1950s
-examine the presidency of Eisenhower
-text
-Video:America, the Story of US
-Video; The Presidents
-youtube clips
-America's Time
-notetaking
-worksheets
-study guides
-reviews -chapter tests -reading analysis
the Sixties: Cold War, Civil Rights and Vietnam
9
-discuss Kennedy's 1000 days
-examine the Cold War under Kennedy
especially the Cuban Missle Crisis
- describe the birth of the Civil Rights Movement
-discuss civilrights under Kennedy and Johnson
-examine the Black Power movement
-investigate the background to the Vietnam War
-examine the Vietnam War under Eisenhower,Kennedy and Johnson (concentratrating on cause/effect of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Tet Offensive)
describe the presidential primary and general elections of 1968
-examine Nixon and Vietnam and Vietnamization
-text
-Video: The Presidents
-youtube clips
- Making Sense of the 60s
-America's Time
-notetaking
-worksheets
-study guides
-reviews -chapter tests -reading analysis
70s,80s and 90s:
Malaise, Reaganomics, superpower and the tech boom
10
-describe the presidency of Richard Nixon
-discuss the election of 1972 and Watergate
-examine the presidencies of Ford and Carter
-describe the presidency of Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics
-Discuss the Fall of Communism
-examine the presidencies of George Bush and Bill Clinton
-identify problems in the Middle East
-discuss challenges in the new millenium
Textbook: The Americans, McDougal Littel (2003)
"The learner will . . ."
-Identify areas of settlement
-Explain the causes of the Declaration of Independence
-Understand the importance of the early presidents especially Washington, Jefferson and Jackson
-Explain the consequences of the Industrial Revolution
-Explain the abolitionist movement
-Understand cause and effect of the war with Mexico
- Examine tensions over the slavery issue
- examine the 1860 presidential election
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-Video: America, The Story of US
-Video: The presidents
-bullet points of emphasis
-worksheets
-map platting
-study guides
-chapter tests
- reading analysis
-Locaate major battle sites
-Explain why the North won the Civil War
-analyze national leadership during Reconstuction
-Describe social and economic changes in the South
-Understand establishmenrt of Jim Crow laws
-Examine the growth of the cattle industry
-Examine the mining booms in the West
-Explain conflicts with native tribes
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-video: America, The story of US
- video: The Presidents
-bullet points of emphasis
Yahoo maps
-worksheets
- map construction
-study guides
- chapter tests
-reading analysis
-explian the need and availability of natural resources
-examine the growth of cities
-examine the development of big business
-trace the origins of organized labor
-explain the importance of new inventions and building techniques
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-Video: America, the Story of US
Video: The Presidents
Youtube clips
-worksheets
-resource mapping
-study guides
- chapter tests
- reading analysis
-understand cause and effects of the Spanish/American War
-explain Roosevelt's Square Deal and Wilson's New Freedom
-describe the long term cause and effects of the Progressive Movement
-examine Us imperialism
-examine cause/effect of WW1
-understand ramifications of the peace treaty
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-Video: America, the -Story of US
Video: The
-Presidents
-Youtube clips
-America's Time
- worksheets
-mapping
-study guides
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
-identify the scandals of the Harding administration
-examine the changes in American culture during the "Jazz Age"
-explain the reasons for prosperity during the 1920s
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-Video: America, the Story of US
-Video: The presidents
-Youtube
-America's Time
-worksheets
-compare/contrast (ecomonic booms)
-study guides
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
-describe the hard times for various segments of American society
-expain the placement of blame for the depression
-examine the implementation of Roosevelt's New Deal
-list and describe New Deal programs
-explain how th New Deal was paid for
-describe the results of the New Deal
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-Video: America, the Story of Us
-Video: The Presidents
-Youtube
-America's Time
-worksheets
-study guides
-compare/contrast (Great Depression/Recession)
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
-describe the start of WW2 in Europe
-examine WW2 before US entry and our increasing involvement
-discuss US advantages and planning for the war effort upon our entry into WW2
-examine WW2 on the southern flank
-examine WW2 on the Eastern Front
-examine Operation Overlord, the US invasion of Europe and subsequent fall of Germany
-examine WW2 in Asia and the Pacific
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-youtube clips
-Video;America the Story of US
-worksheets
-study guides
-map construction
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
-map quizzes
-examine the causes and effects of the Korean War
-examine anti-communism and McCarthyism in the US
-discuss the political environment and the Cold War after WW2
-explain changing American culture in the 1950s
-examine the presidency of Eisenhower
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-Video:America, the Story of US
-Video; The Presidents
-youtube clips
-America's Time
-worksheets
-study guides
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
-examine the Cold War under Kennedy
especially the Cuban Missle Crisis
- describe the birth of the Civil Rights Movement
-discuss civilrights under Kennedy and Johnson
-examine the Black Power movement
-investigate the background to the Vietnam War
-examine the Vietnam War under Eisenhower,Kennedy and Johnson (concentratrating on cause/effect of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Tet Offensive)
describe the presidential primary and general elections of 1968
-examine Nixon and Vietnam and Vietnamization
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-Video: The Presidents
-youtube clips
- Making Sense of the 60s
-America's Time
-worksheets
-study guides
-chapter tests
-reading analysis
Malaise, Reaganomics, superpower and the tech boom
-discuss the election of 1972 and Watergate
-examine the presidencies of Ford and Carter
-describe the presidency of Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics
-Discuss the Fall of Communism
-examine the presidencies of George Bush and Bill Clinton
-identify problems in the Middle East
-discuss challenges in the new millenium
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-Video: Images of the 80s
Video; The Presidents
-America's Time
Video: America, the Story of US
-youtube clips
-worksheets
-study guides
-chapter tests
-reading analysis